A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran.
The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end.
Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree.
One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape.
Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.
In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’.
The self-titled debut album of A Winged Victory For The Sullen will be released on September 9, 2011 via Erased Tapes Records worldwide except for North America where it will be released on September 13, 2011 via Kranky.
Apocalyptic Factory Festival 2011 announces Guerre Froide and Madre Del Vizio
From August 26th to August 27th 2011 the Apocalyptic Factory Festival will take place in JUZ Mannheim.
So far Madre del Vizio and Guerre Froide are part of the line-up.
Other bands will be included.
Tickets are 10 and 15 Euro and can be ordered here.
Swedish label Electric Fantastic Sound has announced new releases for the upcoming weeks:
Flux will release a new single 'Concrete' on July 25th, Social Ambitions make 'Commandements' on August 1st and The Crashlanders will have a compilation out in August as well.
Jäger 90 is a musical duo from Rostock that was founded in 2005 by Thoralf Dietrich (vocals & program) and Stev A. (drums), Vigo Stahlmann replaced Stev A. later on.
Their musical roots reach back into the early 80s. Especially the sound of DAF and EBM shaped the body-conscious sound of the project's outputs.
After two successful albums (Muskeln & Küsse, Drischne Skasal) on Electric Tremor Dessau, the all new album ‘Fleisch macht böse’ has been announced on Out Of Line for late August.
Four volume of the label compilations series, with a new selection of 14 tracks.
As usual, a CDR copy is given with each purchase from the Ad Noiseam online store. This digital version intends on being an way to check out and discover some sounds you might have missed. (Download the free version / Buy the high resolution version)
All the tracks on this compilation are taken from Ad Noiseam releases.
A bandwidth-friendly version of this compilation can be downloaded for free. However, if you enjoy these tracks, remember that you can purchase the CD or records from which these tracks are taken from the Ad Noiseam online store. A higher-resolution version of this compilation (with all tracks encoded at 320 Kbs) can also be purchased from Ad Noiseam, to support the artists and this label.
Half a Euro on each purchase of the high resolution version is given to Amnesty International.
www.adnoiseam.net/label-compilations/ad-noiseam-summer-2011-label-compilation
